Word: muste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Succeeding governments have tinkered further with the law. As it stands now, at least 10% of net profits must be divided among employees according to their rate of pay. The bonus may not exceed two months' pay. Most prosperous employers consider one month's pay a minimum, and some even give more than two months' despite...
...Shakespeare's plays, he carefully lays the scene-the Denmark of Hamlet, the England of the Henrys, a physical description of Cleopatra ("I fumble around with this damn business to make the past seem eloquent"). Then he launches into the plays themselves, acting out each part. "Students must experience Shakespeare," he says, "not just read his words...
Officers are selected from the ranks of the soldiers and are trained for nine months at one of the army's four schools. They must be high-school graduates. Courses are short on arts but long on fundamentalism, homiletics and crowd psychology. One of their textbooks is the army's Orders & Regulations, which contains advice on how to handle toughs ("He should let them see that they have not worn out his love . . ."), how to conduct "Hallelujah Windup" sessions, how to select a wife or husband. Officers are not allowed to marry outside the army...
...between the earth and the air in a direction which would tend to dissipate the charge. It is not much of a current: only about 1,500 amperes, not much more for the entire earth than flows in a few power lines. But the electricity taken from the earth must be restored somehow or the earth's electric charge would soon drain away...
Burden. In Knoxville, Tenn., the judge bound Neal Edwards to the grand jury for stealing a 100-lb. sack of flour, despite Edwards' contention that "somebody must have put it on my back...